Automatic copy-holder



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F. J.- BENSGOTER.

AUTOMATIC .eoPY HOLDER.

No. 585,501. Patente-dQJune 29, 1897."

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AUTOMATIC GOPY HOLDER. No. 585,501 Patented June 29, 1897.;

o dw- UNITED STATES FRANK J. BENSOOTER, OF ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA.

AUTOMATIC COPY-HOLDER,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,501,

dated June 29, 1897.

Application filed December 19, 1896. Serial No. 616,260. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071 0772 it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. BENsooTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alliance, in the county of Boxbutte and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Copy- Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to copy-holders, and more particularly to that class of copy-holders employed by stenographers and typewriters.

The object of the invention is to provide a copy-holder which may be operated by a key similar to the type-bar key, and which will support the paper in true alinement and prevent it slipping or being turned too far around when the operating-key is depressed.

A further object is to simplify the construction and to provide a copy-holder which may be placed on the market at a small cost.

With these objects in view the invention consists of certain features of construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a copyholder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation taken from the right-hand side. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the left-hand side of the machine.

1 denotes the supporting-base of the copyholder, and 2 denotes the uprights, which are inclined at an angle of about thirty degrees. In these uprights are journaled two rollers 3 and 4, one above the other. The roller 4 is provided at one end with a squared portion, upon which is fixed a ratchet-wheel 5 and a crank or winch 6. I

7 denotes a spring-pawl which is secured to the standard above the ratchet-wheel and serves to check any momentum of the roller when it is being turned, which would cause the copy to be fed too far. The roller 4 is also provided with a springarm 8, one end of which is fixed to the roller and the other end of which is provided with a knob 9, by means of which the spring-arm 8 may be elethe paper Wardly-projecting end 11 of a key-lever 12,

which is pivoted to a standard 13, projecting from the base 1. The movement of this lever is controlled by an adjustable stop 14, secured to the base l'and provided with means for holding it in vertical adjustment. If the lines of the copy are far apart, it is evident that the movement of the key should be increased in order to rotate the upper roller a corresponding distance, and after the movement has been determined upon by adjusting the stop the desired distance it may then be secured by any of the well-known means, such as a set-screw.

15 denotes a liner which works on hinges 16, secured to slides 17, supported by the uprights. These slides move up and down, so that the liner may be placed in exact alinement with the line of the copy. By hinging one of the ends of the liner to one of these slides the liner may be turned back on its hinge, so that the paper may be readily placed on the upper roller.

A spring-actuated pawl 19 is secured to one of the uprights and engages the ratchetwheel secured on the end of the roller 3 and prevents the roller being thrown too far around by the sudden depression of the keylever.

A releasing device 20 is secured to the upright, and is for the purpose of throwing the spring-pawl and the end 11 of the key-lever out of gear with the said ratchetwheel, so that the roller 3 may be turned backward when desired and the paper removed.

A spring 21 is employed to keep the upper end 11 of the key-lever in constant engagement with the ratchet-wheel roller 3 except when said lever is intentionally held away from the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A copy-holder comprising the following essential elements, to wit: a supporting-base, inclined standards connected therewith, rollers j ournaled in said standards one above the other, paper-clamps carried by said rollers, with, and-a vertically-movable liner, substan- I0 a crank and a ratchet-Wheel secured ,to the tiallyasshown and described. axis of the lower roller, a pawl for engaging In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my the ratchet-Wheel, a ratehet-wheel secured tci signature in presence of two Witnesses.

5 the axis of the upper roller, aretarding-paw T engaging the said ratohet-wheeLan adjust- 4 FRANK BEL SCOTER' able key-lever, a pawl pivoted to the rear end WVitnesses: and engaging the last-named ratchet-Wheel, W. S. BELLWOOD, a spring for holding it in engagement there- WALTER R. SIDERS. 

